We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important aspects are that the solution is scalable and easy to manage."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."
"All of my lower maintenance overheads are taken care of. I don't have to worry about it."
"Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility."
"My company uses the tool for cloud monitoring. We have a production, staging, deployment, and testing environment in AWS. However, we do not use the managed service of AWS yet. My team uses the required parameters for security like VPC, firewall, gates of security as well as the external layer of the app."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"The support from Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is very good."
"The monitoring tool is helpful."
"The solution includes many features for configuring networks and VPCs."
"We use the solution to increase CPU and memory size."
"The documentation is good."
"It's good performance-wise."
"Most of what I've deployed are CI/CD pipelines. AWS is scalable. You can always increase or adjust the resources to meet the specific requirements. I also like choosing an instance in any location, preferably the closest one. We don't have any AWS locations in South Africa, but the latency is about the same as hosting in Europe."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is scaling your intra based on the request. Additionally, you are able to map the solution with any load balancer, such as public or private load balancers."
"If the solution was cheaper, if the price was less, it would be better."
"The price could be better, and it could be more affordable. Because I run my own servers, the prices are quite high."
"am concerned about the tool's data security."
"I would like to see as much automation for data validation as possible in the future."
"The IP changes whenever we restart which is frustrating."
"They can build automatic features for ENSS or network drive. They have the Control-M feature. Similarly, they should have a feature for the network drive that can be mapped. I have not seen such a feature. They have a lot of products but those are quite costly. There is no cheaper option available for the EC2 instance for syncing two drives. If these features are available, it would be good."
"The initial deployment was complex."
"The tool’s stability could be better."
"When creating a new instance there is a set of questions that have to be answered, and this is something that can be simplified."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The pricing could be reduced."
"The tool must provide proper guidelines to troubleshoot connectivity issues."
"There should be an AWS instance in South Africa, where the latency would be even lower. It might happen soon since AWS has recently opened more data centres in Nigeria. AWS may extend its reach to South Africa, and offer hosted CLI servers there. Most of the problems with AWS are not to do with the solution itself but with configuration. It is something on design, more or less."
"The launch configuration feature doesn't work properly. It needs to improve the load configuration feature along with launch templates. The tool needs to tag feature as well."
"We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly."
"The product's technical support needs to be better."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 37 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling writes "Well-documented setup process and highly stable solution". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Apache Spark, Apache NiFi and AWS Batch, whereas Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Amazon Elastic Inference and Oracle Compute Cloud Service. See our Amazon EC2 vs. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling report.
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